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What is NodeConf EU?

NodeConf EU is the key Node.js event in Europe, providing a forum for the Node.js community. It takes place on an estate just outside the medieval city of Kilkenny, Ireland. Kilkenny is the neighbour of Waterford - the worlds new Node.js
centre of excellence and home of nearForm.

NodeConf EU is THE networking event for Node.js developers, tech managers and CTO’s, as well as an awesome social event for everyone - including sponsors, partners and families.

Our Past Events

nearForm’s competence in conferences has been growing since 2012, when the company organized and hosted the first ‘Node Dublin’ event. Four years later, we are proud to be established as Node.js event specialists on a global level.
The hallmark of these events is their democratic atmosphere: industry giants and hackers alike become one community and collaborate in a positive learning environment.

The unflinching aim is to deliver the highest quality talks, the most relevant workshops, and the most fertile, collegial atmosphere to ensure that attendees have the best conference experience possible. Our goal is to create an environment
where everyone can relax, share their stories and learn from one another.

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Event Schedule

Sunday 16th October

NodeConf EU 2016 Kick-Off Evening

18:30 - BBQ & Entertainment

Monday 17th October

Time

Title

Who

08:50 - 09:00

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Cian Ó'Maidín

09:00 - 09:25

The Node Community: Past, Present, and Future

Bryan Hughes

09:30 - 09:55

Performance profiling for V8

Franziska Hinkelmann

10:00 - 10:25

Node.js with ChakraCore – History, progress, and where we go from here

Brian Terlson

10:30 - 10:55

Coffee Break

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11:00 - 11:25

Node.js Releases: How do they work?

Myles Borins

11:30 - 11:55

A deep dive into libuv

Saúl Ibarra Corretgé

12:00 - 12:25

Benchmarking Node.js with Statistics

Andreas Madsen

12:30 - 12:55

Real World Node Core

Jeremiah Senkpiel

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

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14:00 - 15:30

Optimizing Node.js applications with 0x and autocannon

Matteo Collina + David Clements

14:00 - 15:30

Hardware/IoT workshop

Bryan Hughes

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

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16:00 - 17:30

Optimizing Node.js applications with 0x and autocannon

Matteo Collina + David Clements

16:00 - 17:30

Hardware/IoT workshop

Bryan Hughes

16:00 - 17:30

Laughing Yoga

Aisling Murphy Wall

Tuesday 18th October

Time

Title

Who

09:00 - 09:25

JSOFF, a world without JSON

Michael Paulson

09:30 - 09:55

Node.js and Microsoft: A love story about developer tools

Sara Itani

10:00 - 10:25

Serverless Node.js with Webtasks

Tomasz Janczuk

10:30 - 10:55

Coffee Break

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11:00 - 11:25

How we keep the registry running

Maciej Małecki

11:30 - 11:55

Zero-risk Microservices

Richard Rodger

12:00 - 12:25

Stranger Danger: fixing vulnerabilities in npm packages

Guy Podjarny

12:30 - 13:25

Lunch

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13:30 - 15:00

P2P File Sharing Workshop

Mathias Buus + Thomas Watson

13:30 - 15:00

Microservices in practice with SenecaJS

Michele Capra + Marco Piraccini

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

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15:30 - 17:00

P2P File Sharing Workshop

Mathias Buus + Thomas Watson

15:30 - 17:00

Microservices in practice with SenecaJS

Michele Capra + Marco Piraccini

Wednesday 19th October

Time

Title

Who

09:30 - 09:55

Browser is the new server

Gleb Bahmutov

10:00 - 10:25

Towards a smaller, faster web

Yoshua Wuyts

10:30 - 10:55

Coffee Break

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11:00 - 11:25

The cost of logging

Matteo Collina

11:30 - 11:55

Turning the Tanker and navigating rough seas

Gregor Russbuelt

12:00 - 12:25

Strangling Monoliths

Katie Stockton Roberts

12:30 - 12:55

SWIMing in the Microservices ocean

Luca Maraschi

12:55 - 13:55

Lunch

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13:30 - 15:00

Build cross platform desktop apps with Electron

Feross Aboukhadijeh

13:30 - 15:00

Security Regression Testing with ZapAPI and NodeGoat

Kim Carter

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

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15:30 - 17:00

Build cross platform desktop apps with Electron

Feross Aboukhadijeh

15:30 - 17:00

Pull-stream workshop

Dominic Tarr

15:30 - 17:00

Mindfulness Meditation

Aisling Murphy Wall

NodeConf EU 2016 Closing Party

20:00 - Gala Dinner & Entertainment

NodeConf EU Program

Speakers

Kim Carter

Kim Carter is a senior technology architect and information security professional with a 15-year career to date. He is a seasoned entrepreneur and the founder of BinaryMist. Kim is also Chapter Leader of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
NZ and a Certified Scrum Master. Kim enjoys working as a facilitator, mentor and motivator of cross-functional, self-managing teams. His new book, Holistic InfoSec For Web Developers (Leanpub) is due for publication
in the second half of 2016.

Feross Aboukhadijeh

Feross Aboukhadijeh is a programmer, designer and teacher. He is a graduate of Stanford University and has worked at Quora, Facebook, and Intel. Recently, Feross built WebTorrent Desktop, a futuristic torrent client that supports streaming and has a strong
focus on UX. Previously, he built PeerCDN, a peer-to-peer content delivery network to make sites faster and cheaper.

Julian Gruber

Julian Gruber is a full stack developer based in southern Germany. He is currently working on the Dat project, among many other open source projects. While programming is his favourite activity, what really gets him working into the night is creating
products that matter - products that work in the simplest possible way and enrich people’s lives.

Matteo Collina

Dr. Matteo Collina is a senior architect and consultant at nearForm, specializing in Node.js and the internet of things (IoT). Previously, he worked with Ruby, Java and Objective-C. In 2014, Matteo obtained his Ph.D. on the subject Application Platforms
for the Internet of Things. Matteo is the author of the Node.js MQTT broker Mosca, the fast logger Pino and of the LevelGraph database. In December 2015, he became a Node.js collaborator, maintaining UDP and streams.
Matteo speaks regularly at international technology conferences and is co-author of the book Javascript: Best Practices (FAG, Milan, 2013).

Gleb Bahmutov

Dr. Gleb Bahmutov develops real-time financial analysis tools at Kensho. He is an expert in JavaScript and image processing, and a software quality fanatic. After receiving a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University, Gleb worked on laser scanners,
3D reconstruction, and panorama-based virtual tours at EveryScape. Later, Gleb switched to writing browser data visualization software at MathWorks.

Franziska Hinkelmann

Franziska Hinkelmann is a software engineer at Google Germany. She works on the Chrome V8 team, focusing on everything related to Node.js. She also regularly teaches Node.js courses at the International Summer University for Women in Informatics at the
University of Bremen. Franziska was previously organizer of the PHP User Group Munich.

Tomasz Janczuk

Tomasz Janczuk leads the development of the Webtask serverless platform at Auth0, an identity management company. Previously, he worked for Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, and founded his own venture, Mobile Chapters. Tomasz is a long-time open source
enthusiast, and is the creator of iisnode and Edge.js, among others.

Michael Paulson

Michael Paulson is a senior software engineer at Netflix. He develops libraries for TV, Node.js, websites and mobile. He works mainly in JavaScript, focusing primarily on data and product experience. Michael contributes to open source technologies on
an ongoing basis.

Brian Terlson

Brian Terlson is a program manager at Microsoft. He works on the open source JavaScript engine ChakraCore. He is also Microsoft’s representative on the JavaScript standardization body TC39 and is presently serving as the ECMAScript specification editor.
Brian is also championing a number of proposals through the TC39 process, including async functions, decorators, and the new bind operator.

Katie Stockton Roberts

Katie Stockton Roberts is Development Lead for Knowledge and Learning at the BBC. Katie has worked as a JavaScript developer for over 10 years. She is currently working on products such as Bitesize and BBC Earth. She and and her team are experts in supporting
legacy code bases whilst enhancing and improving them with cloud-based Node.js and microservices.

Thomas Watson

Thomas Watson is an open source Node.js hacker based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a member of the Node.js Diagnostics Working Group and is the Node.js Lead at Opbeat, a JavaScript performance analysis and monitoring startup. He maintains over 100 open
source projects, and enjoys implementing network protocols in JavaScript.

Mathias Buus

Mathias Buus is a non-profit Node.js hacker based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He works full time on open source and is part of the Dat project, the aim of which is to build open tools to help scientists share data sets. Mathias maintains more than 400 modules
on npm, including several P2P modules.

Sara Itani

Sara is a Master of Engineering student at MIT in Computer Science. She loves to design, build, code, and communicate. Give Sara a project with all of these elements, and she will be there in a heartbeat. Specialties: Current Obsessions: robotics, natural
user interfaces (NUI), image processing, business strategy, entrepreneurship, public speaking, software development.

Emily Rose

Emily Rose is a transhumanist with a passion for queer cyborg artistry, who is currently experimenting with ambient intelligence, adaptive automation, and evolving interfaces. Emily is a world-class speaker who has brought enlightenment to audiences across
the globe. As an original NodeBots curator and founder of DanceJS, Emily is an unnatural force of pure, unbridled creativity.

David Clements

David Mark Clements is an architecture and performance consultant with nearForm, and head of nearForm's training department. David is passionate about performance and open source. His recent efforts include 0x, the first (and only) cross-platform flamegraph
generation tool for Node.js; pino, the fastest Node.js JSON logger in the ecosystem; and autopsy, a postmortem analysis tool. He's also the author of Node Cookbook, currently in its second edition, with a third on the
way.

Yoshua Wuyts

Yoshua is a freelance creative engineer who loves all things computer. He's been an active member of the Node.js community for years and specializes in building tiny tools that achieve big things.

Michele Capra

Michele Capra is a software engineer with nearForm, where he designs and develops distributed systems with Node.js. He is proficient in several coding languages, including JavaScript, Python and C#, and has a strong focus on quality. Michele is a regular
speaker at conferences and meetups.

Marco Piraccini

Marco Piraccini is a freelance consultant and software architect, but mainly concentrates on developing code. He is an advocate of Linux, open source software and other knowledge-sharing platforms. He is a recent convert to JavaScript and now spends most
of his time developing in Node.js

Bryan Hughes

Bryan Hughes is a Node.js engineer at Microsoft and member of the Node.js Technical Steering Comittee. Bryan is the creator of Raspi IO, a Raspberry Pi plugin for the Johnny-Five JavaScript robotics library. He also runs the NodeBots SF robotics meetup
in San Francisco. Bryan is an active member of the Node.js Inclusivity Working Group and Node.js Hardware Working Group. Outside of tech, Bryan is an amateur photographer, a once upon a time pianist, and a wine aficionado.

Andreas Madsen

Andreas Madsen studies mathematical modeling and computing in Denmark, with a particular focus on machine learning (AI). Andreas uses large volumes of data in his work, most of which he collects using Node.js. In his spare time, he is a Node.js collaborator
and works on AsyncWrap.

Richard Rodger

Richard Rodger is co-CEO (previously CTO) and co-founder of nearForm.com. Richard is an expert and thought-leader in next-generation enterprise software delivery, with a focus on Node.js and microservices. Richard has long been an active member and influencer
of the open source software (OSS) community, specializing in OSS for enterprise. At nearForm, he has placed OSS at the heart of how the company works. He is the maintainer of senecajs.org, a microservices framework
for Node.js that is a key component of nearForm’s software development and delivery capability.

Myles Borins

Myles Borins is a developer, musician, artist, and inventor. He works for IBM spending most of his time contributing to the node.js ecosystem. he graduated with a Master of Music Science and Technology from C.C.R.M.A, a.k.a the center for computer research
in music and acoustics.

Jeremiah Senkpiel

Jason Melo

Jason is chief architect at Lifion by ADP. He is a cross-domain technology entrepreneur who took his startup to a successful exit in 2008. He has created high-performance, scalable, secure web, mobile and enterprise systems for big-name clients such as
Warner Music Group and Deloitte.

Saúl Ibarra Corretgé

Saúl (aka saghul) programs in Python, C and (reluctantly) JavaScript. Once he got trapped in an event-loop and never made it out. In his spare time he is one of the libuv core janitors.

Maciej Małecki

Maciej is an engineer on the npm team. He spends most of his time writing Node.js and Bash, talking to servers and hoping they talk back. Passionate about deployment, software architecture and monitoring. Loves traveling.

Gregor Russbuelt

Gregor Robert Russbuelt is a passionate technologist and currently leading the engineering practice for Costa Digital (Costa Crociere S.p.A). He loves to navigate and simplify complex environments, as well as leading change for a better "Human to Human"
interaction within the Enterprise.

Dominic Tarr

After a couple of years exploring dynamic forrest, Dominic has been been scaling the mountains of systems programming, and has recently begun spelunking the crypto- caves. Available for interesting side quests. Chaotic Good.

Guy Podjarny

Guy Podjarny is CEO & cofounder at Snyk.io focusing on securing the Node.js and npm world. Guy was previously CTO at Akamai, founded Blaze.io (acquired by Akamai), helped build the first web app firewall & security code analyzer, and was in the Israeli
army cyber units. Guy is a frequent conference speaker, the author (via O'Reilly) of "Responsive & Fast”, “High Performance Images” and an upcoming open source security book.

What can you Expect?

Sunday 16thSunday starts with a scintillating traditional Irish BBQ. If you fancy something new, we’ve got you covered too! Frances Walsh will show us how to prepare and serve succulent vegan dishes for you to
devour. Before you know it The Metalman Brewery will have arrived meaning you can sit back and savour the flavour of their best beers as they teach us about their splendid brews. We’ve got all senses covered as Basciville will
be playing their soothing songs.

Monday 17thCeltic drummers will greet you as you saunter around the stunning Kilkenny Castle on a sensational walking tour before experiencing the breathtaking picture gallery. Experts who live and breath the castle
will take time to teach you all about Kilkenny’s vibrant history. After all that you get to enjoy some post tour drinks in the Parade Tower. A short stroll across the road to the Kilkenny Design Center will take us to Anocht Restaurant
for a divine three course meal paired with The Ocelots playing live!

Tuesday 18thIf you need a break from the talks why not take a tour of the Highbank Orchard? The Orchard train will let you experience the beautiful orchards at the perfect time of the year, as they will be lush
with growth. Then learn all about gin and cider made at Highbank. Julie will even let you indulge in a little tipple if you fancy before moving onto our Irish trad night. Traditional Irish music will play as you devour gorgeous
gourmet pizza. Frances Walsh will return, this time serving up satiating salads and vegan friendly desserts that everyone will set their sights on!

Wednesday 19thGet out your glad rags for the Gala Dinner on the final night of NodeConf EU. On the night, you will be able to feast on the finest food “Nodeland” has to offer until you’re so full you can’t fit
another bite! Be prepared and pack your dancing shoes for Waterford band Backroad Smokers Club, who will be jamming till the early morning! Dress to impress, or under-dress to de-stress before you go back to work. This will be
a night to remember, so pack your camera!

The Venue

Lyrath Estate is a multi-award winning hotel, spa and luxury wedding venue offering some of the finest accommodation, dining, and conference facilities in Ireland. Set in 170 acres of mature parkland, complete with picturesque lakes
and Lady Charlotte’s historic gardens and located just 1.2 kilometres from Kilkenny City in the historic heartland of Ireland, the 139 bedroom Lyrath Estate Hotel is the most prestigious of all Kilkenny hotels.

Lyrath Estate Hotel has a wealth of both indoor and outdoor activities on offer throughout the year. Lyrath Estate is so much more than just a hotel, it is a place to relax, unwind and have some well-earned down time.

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Accommodation

Lyrath Estate Kilkenny

There are 139 bedrooms available at The Lyrath. The choice of guest accommodation at the five star Lyrath Estate Hotel is extensive. There is a unique sense of character and opulence in all their rooms, from the contemporary elegance
of the deluxe bedrooms, to the spectacular views over the estate from the terrace in the executive rooms, to the 17th century grandeur of the rooms in the original house.

Code Of Conduct

Our conference is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion (or lack thereof). We do not
tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and other online media. Conference participants violating
these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference without a refund at the discretion of the conference organisers.

Contact

If you have any queries at all about the event, please don't hesitate to contact us.